Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Publishers Lunch

Timothy Paulson
will join Harper Christian as vp and publisher of Nelson Books, starting
February 4. He was most recently with Kalmbach Media.

At Harper Children's, Olivia
Russo has been promoted to director, publicity and Haley George to
associate publicist. Kristopher
Kam joins as publicist. He was most recently at St. Martin's.

Roxanne Jones has been promoted to publicist at Berkley.

At Little Brown UK, Sphere Fiction publisher and executive director of the
rights and audio teams Cath Burke has been promoted to deputy managing
director of Little Brown Book Group, reporting to Charlie King. Lucy Malagoni has been promoted to Sphere Fiction
publisher.

Longtime publishing executive Robin
Seaman, 68, died
on January 7 from "complications due to an infection." She was
director of content acquisition at nonprofit Benetech since 2008.

ImprintsEuropa Editions will launch a new imprint, Europa Compass,
publishing nonfiction titles on travel, contemporary culture, popular science,
history, philosophy, and politics, in May. They plan to publish six to eight
titles a year by 2020.

A
lot of people like to sign
up for PublishersMarketplace.com membership early in the year, so as an
experiment we left our "anniversary" promotion code valid for longer
than usual -- but the end is coming. You have until January 15 to use the code
fifteen when enrolling, to get your first full month of PM membership for $15
(a $10 savings from the standard price).